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    William Shakespeare
    “My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
    My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
    The more I have, for both are infinite.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
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    William Shakespeare
    “Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet
    tags: romeo-and-juliet
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    William Shakespeare
    “These violent delights have violent ends
    And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
    Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
    Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
    And in the taste confounds the appetite.
    Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
    Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
    tags: romeo-and-juliet, shakespeare
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    William Shakespeare
    “When he shall die,
    Take him and cut him out in little stars,
    And he will make the face of heaven so fine
    That all the world will be in love with night
    And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
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    William Shakespeare
    “Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
    That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
    tags: infatuation, love, passion
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet
    tags: love, poetry
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    William Shakespeare
    “Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
    SAMPSON [Aside to Gregory]: Is the law of our side, if I say ay?
    GREGORY [Aside to Sampson]: No.
    SAMPSON: No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
    tags: insult
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Hope is the thing with feathers
    That perches in the soul
    And sings the tune without the words
    And never stops at all.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: feathers, hope, inspirational, souls
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    Emily Dickinson
    “This is my letter to the world
    That never wrote to me”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: compassion, people, social-anxiety
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Beauty is not caused. It is.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: beauty
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    Emily Dickinson
    “I'm nobody! Who are you?
    Are you nobody, too?
    Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
    They ’d banish us, you know.

    How dreary to be somebody!
    How public, like a frog
    To tell your name the livelong day
    To an admiring bog!”
    ― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    tags: fame, poetry
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Because I could not stop for Death –
    He kindly stopped for me –
    The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
    And Immortality.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
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    Emily Dickinson
    “The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Heart, we will forget him,

    You and I, tonight!

    You must forget the warmth he gave,

    I will forget the light.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: love
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Till I loved I never lived.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
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  • #17
    Emily Dickinson
    “A great hope fell
    You heard no noise
    The ruin was within.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: hope
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    Emily Dickinson
    “A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.”
    ― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    tags: love-poems
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    Robert Frost
    “Some say the world will end in fire,
    Some say in ice.
    From what I've tasted of desire,
    I hold with those who favor fire.
    But if it had to perish twice
    I think I know enough of hate
    To say that for destruction ice
    Is also great
    And would suffice.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: poetry
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    Walter Moers
    “Es kommt nicht darauf an, wie eine Geschichte anfängt. Auch nicht darauf, wie sie aufhört. Sondern auf das, was dazwischen passiert.”
    ― Walter Moers, Die Stadt der Träumenden Bücher
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Reality was utterly coolheaded and utterly lonely.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 Book 1
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    Dorothy Parker
    “There's little in taking or giving
    There's little in water or wine
    This living, this living , this living
    was never a project of mine.
    Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is
    the gain of the one at the top
    for art is a form of catharsis
    and love is a permanent flop
    and work is the province of cattle
    and rest's for a clam in a shell
    so I'm thinking of throwing the battle
    would you kindly direct me to hell?”
    ― Dorothy Parker
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    Dorothy Parker
    “The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
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    “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
    ― Sid Ziff
    tags: bad-reviews, book, humorist, misattributed-dorothy-parker, wit
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    Dorothy Parker
    “Don't look at me in that tone of voice.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: disapproval, humor, wordplay
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    Dorothy Parker
    “I like to have a martini,
    Two at the very most.
    After three I'm under the table,
    after four I'm under my host.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, The Collected Dorothy Parker
    tags: drinking, drunken-behaviour, humor
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    Dorothy Parker
    “Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: wordplay
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    Dorothy Parker
    “This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it."

    [Women Know Everything!]”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: bad-reviews, fancy, raisins, terrible, wordplay
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    Dorothy Parker
    “If I didn't care for fun and such,
    I'd probably amount to much.
    But I shall stay the way I am,
    Because I do not give a damn.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope
    tags: apathy, fame, pleasure
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    Dorothy Parker
    “Inventory:

    "Four be the things I am wiser to know:
    Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
    Four be the things I'd been better without:
    Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
    Three be the things I shall never attain:
    Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
    Three be the things I shall have till I die:
    Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
    tags: champagne, contentment, curiosity, doubt, envy, foes, friends, hope, idleness, inventory, knowledge, laughter, life, love, sorrow, sufficienty, superfluity, unattainable, values, wisdom
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